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condition of things which can exist for any great 

 length of time, now that people are every day be- 

 coming more and more awake to the importance 

 of scientific investigation and to the astounding 

 and unexpected manner in which it everywhere 

 reacts upon practical pursuits. I should look 

 upon the establishment of some institution of that 

 kind as a recognition on the part of the medical 

 profession in general, that if their great and be- 

 neficent work is to be carried on, they must, like 

 other people who have great and beneficent work 

 to do, contribute to the advancement of knowl- 

 edge in the only way in which experience shows 

 that it can be advanced. 



